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I recently started working with Robotlegs on a daily basis and I've never had to write that much custom event classes, so I felt like it was starting to be a little bit boring... That's why I wrote a pretty basic/simple app that does hard part for you!
Simply enter you custom event's class name and package, drop in some constants and properties: you're all set!
Hey! Another free AIR app! This time that ain't no side project I made on my free time for some obscure users, but rather a big thingy for a big company. Namely Fotolia.
I did all of the coding part (ActionScript 3, Flex 4) and Steaw is responsible for the UI and all graphics. › Continue reading...
Warning: techy post for once; sorry about that regular folks. Looking for something nicer than cryptic bug fixes? Have a look around here!
So here we go: I'm working on a big multi-lingual AIR app within Flash Builder and just received the locale files from my client today (made with Lupo).
Couldn't wait to see what it looked like in Japanese and in all other languages supported (13, to be precise) so I copied the "locale" folder into my project, updated the "Additional compiler arguments" with "-locale de_DE en_GB en_US es_ES fr_FR it_IT ja_JP pl_PL pt_BR pt_PT ru_RU tr_TR zh_CN -allow-source-path-overlap=true -source-path=locale/{locale}" and refreshed the project. Which broke, saying "unable to open '[blablah]\frameworks\locale\en_GB'". › Continue reading...
Meet Dok, my latest and nicest AIR app to this day!
Always looking for help when writing AS3 for Flash, Flex and AIR? Think Adobe's reference is rich but browsing it sucks? Well, I did too. So I wrote this little thingy that loads, parses and caches help pages and then presents them in a slick and quick UI!
This post is a techy one, so if you don't write AIR apps or if you think this wouldn't be enough to show off during coffee break I recommend something funnier. › Continue reading...
During the last couple of months I've been working on a free AIR app for a French community-based site called Weecast. Its purpose is to allow users to submit and/or buy screencasts about your favorite apps and languages (mostly Adobe's and Microsoft's, but also 3D ones', OS's and more).
Introducing the Weecast Player!
The app allows you to browse your videos, watch them (4 view modes), search for more, drop comments and stars... I think that's called an RIA, right? There's also an offline mode, so you can access all your stuff anytime. › Continue reading...
If you've ever wondered whether it's possible to apply a gradient on a Flex Label, well it is ; but that's not very straight forward... As I'm working on a app that requires this kind of glitter I decided to try and see what could be done.
I started with a basic ActionScript project (no Flex involved) and came up with this. Quite functional, could probably be optimized but my goal was actually a Flex component and I knew that was technically feasible. I then simply extended Flex's Label class and basically copied/pasted the logic into it. Just had to figure out which event to listen to and I was good to go...
Here's a demo app for your playing pleasure.
You may notice that in this example I embed the font so it looks nicer, but this is not mandatory...
All this is opensource (class+project) and you can grab it at my brand new Google Code dump: as3-bits. Help yourself.
As always, feedback welcome.
Introducing Boks, my latest and most ambitious AIR app to this day!
Do you design web pages? Do you write HTML and CSS? Ever heard about the Grid System and Blueprint CSS? Thought it was a pain to implement? Think again, fool! › Continue reading...
I recently released FFFFOUND Desktop, this AIR app uses a home-made API that I'm open sourcing today. The code is hosted on Google Code and is available via SVN, I also uploaded a zip archive if you prefer.
You'll find the (asdocs) docs in the repository and in the archive.
Finally a new AIR app! It's called FFFFOUND Desktop and if you like FFFFOUND you'll love it.
More info on the projet's page, as usual. › Continue reading...
